Inspiration

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When I asked the Christian Science practitioner for prayer to heal hemorrhoids, I never mentioned my drug addiction. However, after the complete healing I discovered that all desire to use drugs was gone. No willpower was involved—it was the light of the Christ, dissolving the “mist and shadow into Truth’s clear day.”

Even though I didn't feel worthy of God's healing power, I turned to him in prayer and the resulting permanent healing of stomach pain was an experience I'll never forget. No matter the problem, you, too, can be healed.

I grew up in a family where my mother and grandfather suffered from manic depression. Having seen how little help the traditional methods had given my mom and my grandfather, when I was having major mood swings, my desire was to really heal the problem. That's when I found Christian Science and was healed.

I have been healed of so many things by studying and practicing the teachings in that remarkable book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I put the following healing of Alzheimer's disease on record, trusting it may help others.

Our home was caught in the center of a massive fire traveling at 100 miles per hour and licking up the homes around us in 15-second intervals. There was nothing I could do but pray to God for safety and protection.

I was ten years old, and on this day I fell from the ten-foot-high diving board onto the concrete alongside it, missing the water entirely. I have no memory of the fall itself, but what I do remember is just as vivid now as it was the day it happened.

Each of us, as God’s sons and daughters, has been endowed with the spiritual sense to discern and value freedom. This kind of liberty means being free from all the claims of material existence and its so-called laws, including freedom from sin, disease, and, ultimately, death.

The physical law that a bullet traveling at great speed will not stop without a solid object to stop it, was nullified. I experienced the safety that flows from a spiritual understanding of God and man, and this safety is available to all of us.